2011 © Antiques in Bethania
The lake behind our home in Clemmons, North Carolina is really a small pond and though manmade, it is well stocked. Our neighbors imported white sand for their beach. Ours is a dull gray but my husband built a dock where I am standing now, teaching my daughter to fish.
Meet Julianna and Marissa Stoap, the New Twin Secret Weapon(s) of Bravo’s Hit Reality TV Series, Million Dollar Listing
Give us your “elevator speech” about who you are besides being the Stoap Twins of Million Dollar Listing fame.
It is January and I am taking a break from my MFA residency at Goddard College in Vermont. I just finished trekking through snow into the town of Plainfield to visit my favorite haunt –
Hippocrates is a man after a woman’s heart. He recommended red wine as a diuretic, to purge fever, disinfect wounds, and as a great source for vitamins.
The instinct to create remains as long as one thinks.”
-Isaac Singer
The urge to write, to put our thoughts on paper, is like an involuntary, almost compulsive, act that takes control of our emotions.”
- Ritu Khanna
“People who write look twice, listen for smells, dig deeper, build dream castles, get from behind locked doors, have a ball, play in the sun, get into and out of deep water, sing in their own key.”
- Torrance
LINKS TO MY WRITINGS
My new hero is Dr Susan Love who informs women that, “Breasts were fine before the invention of the brassiere . . . wearing a bra . . . has no medical necessity whatsoever.”
Never mind that I am a communications major. Never mind that I tried to bundle and save . . .
I am on a coach with other students from Oxford traveling on a four-day field excursion along the so-called Roman Road into Wales.
It was a mid summer’s eve and I was in Shakespeare’s land, living my dream studying abroad. The day had started innocently enough as did all my days in England.
If Horatio Alger were alive today, most likely he would say “Buy Art, young Man, Buy Art.” Why you ask, should not be a question. So okay, the economy sucks. See page 8
Interviewer: So, Bev, how was your day?
Bev: I want to run away from home.
Interviewer: Why?
The old Frigidaire hummed and droned
to the snap of green beans, and
lids twisted on Mason jars.
Scents awakened the house, pulled me
down winding stairs
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to see Gloria Steinem in person at my alma mater, Salem College, which is also the oldest female academy and college in the United States.
The first semester my older brother Ken came home from college, he would make me memorize Shakespeare. The second semester, he threw in Chaucer, but this time, I had to recite the words in old English.
2011 © Antiques in Bethania